Pabbi ( ps, پببے ; ur, ) is a large town in Pabbi Tehsil of

Nowshera District Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was a tehsil (sub d ...

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

province of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. It is located on both sides of the Grand Trunk (GT) around 20-km from

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

, the capital of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province.

Overview

Pabbi town is the capital and tehsil headquarters of Pabbi tehsil in

. It has a train station called Pabbi station and is a

market town A market town is a Human settlement, settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular marketplace, market; this distinguished it from a village or ...

. Peshawar City is located to the west around 20-km away while Nowshera City is located to the east around 17-km away. Pabbi is a hub of precast concrete industries located at the main GT road in Chowki Mumraiz. Currently, there are 43 precast concrete industries that are functional in Pabbi which supply different items to the entire Khyber Paktunkhwa and to some parts of the Punjab.

Famous People

Pabbi is/was a birthplace of several famous people: *

Gul Hassan Khan Gul Hassan Khan ( ur, گل حسن خان) (1921; b. 1921—10 October 1999), was a Pakistan Army senior general who served as the 6th and the last Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army, serving under President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from 20 Decembe ...

was a former lieutenant-general and the last Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army. *Mian Iftikhat Hussain, Provincial Ex-Minister for information *Sareer Ahmad Khan, ex minister excise and taxation *Sher Zaman Taizi was a

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...

writer, poet, intellectual, and journalist from

*Waqar Ahmad Khudrizi, entrepreneur.

Education

Pabbi is home to many excellent educational institutes. It hosts a campus of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. It has a campus of the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar in Jelozai town while it also has a campus of Peshawar University for its botany studies and research at botanical garden Azakhel. It is also home to 2 degree colleges: Government Degree College Pabbi and Government Girls Degree College Pabbi.

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{{Nowshera-Union-Councils Populated places in Nowshera District

Overview

Famous People

Education

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